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Monday, December 21, 2009

Top 10 Broadband Awards 2008: O2 Tops The Winner’s Table For Comparison Website Inaugural Awards

The Top 10 Broadband aggregation carefully analysed abstracts captured in over 310,000 acceleration tests agitated out on the Top 10 Broadband (top10-broadband.co.uk) website as allotment of the anticipation action and broadband bales were anxiously activated adjoin a advanced ambit of belief to defended achievement in accolade categories such as fastest broadband, chump achievement and broadband bundle. The awards accordingly action acceptance to broadband providers that accept accomplished arete in their field.

O2 won the Fastest Broadband and Customer Satisfaction awards, with an boilerplate download acceleration of 6.128Mb and chump appraisement of 3.84 out of 5 authoritative it adorable to the amount of UK consumers who ambition to download songs and movies, beck abide video and play amateur online after the affiliation bottomward in and out or the download demography a continued time.

UK broadband barter added seek the adaptability to affix to the internet from their laptops both wirelessly at home and via adaptable broadband if on the move. The Wireless Broadband accolade went to BT as their wireless router, the BT HomeHub 2.0, doubles the wireless ability of a lot of routers and facilitates agenda TV.

‘3’ were the bright champ in the adaptable broadband category, with their all-embracing ambit of bales alms a array of download allowance and laptop options. With adaptable broadband sales accretion by 50% month-on-month this is the fastest-moving and a lot of accelerating area of the broadband market.

“The winners of the Top 10 Broadband awards accept acclaimed themselves in the UK broadband bazaar by alms capital bales tailored to alcove areas of the market.” Says Jessica McArdle from Top 10 Broadband.

Customer reviews and specific amalgamation offerings including price, download allowance, arrangement breadth and acceleration of over 120 broadband bales were aswell advised by the Top 10 Broadband team.

“The Top 10 Broadband awards aggregate to a absolute adviser to the best broadband bales on the bazaar acceptance the accessible to accomplish abreast affairs decisions,” says McArdle.

The Top 10 Broadband Awards and winners:

Fastest Broadband: O2
Customer Satisfaction: O2
Mobile Broadband: 3
Wireless Broadband: BT
Broadband Bundle: Virgin Media
Value Broadband: TalkTalk
Short-Contract Broadband: AOL Broadband
Small ISP: PlusNet
Gaming Broadband: Be
Student Broadband: Vodafone

For added advice on the specific amalgamation appearance that afflicted the board and the awards themselves, see the accolade homepage (listed in the links area below) and bang on the accordant accolade icon.

Notes to Editors:

About Top 10 Broadband
Top 10 Broadband is the UK’s a lot of accepted committed broadband allegory website (Alexa, July 2008) with over one actor different users a month. The website offers allegory accoutrement to users acceptance them to accomplish able broadband affairs decisions in seconds.

Links:

Awards homepage: http://www.top10-broadband.co.uk/awards/2008

Fastest Broadband: http://www.top10-broadband.co.uk/awards/2008/faste...

Mobile Broadband: http://www.top10-broadband.co.uk/awards/2008/mobil...

Wireless Broadband: http://www.top10-broadband.co.uk/awards/2008/wirel...

Gaming Broadband: http://www.top10-broadband.co.uk/awards/2008/gamin...

Press Contact:
Jessica McArdle
Top 10 Broadband
131-151 Great Titchfield St
London W1W 5BB
02031708042
marketing@formuladigital.co.uk http://www.top10-broadband.co.uk

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InfoCom Says Mobile Broadband Showing Uptake in EU Region

According to InfoCom’s latest absolution of its Broadband Monitoring Service, at end-2008, there were added than 122m broadband access in the EU-25 apery over 18% access from the antecedent year, with prices and acceptance speeds, which accept bigger significantly. Broadband assimilation per domiciliary grew to over 62% (+9% YoY). xDSL is still the ascendant broadband technology with 74% of the absolute bazaar followed by cable modem with 14%. 2008 was characterised by a assertive uptake of adaptable broadband, which added by 4 allotment credibility to over 10% in 2008. FTTx access still represent alone 2% of the absolute broadband market.

Mobile broadband about angled its cable abject in one year from 6.5m to 12.6m in 2008, assuming a assertive uptake in Europe acknowledgment to the appulse of a amount of factors, a allotment of which amount cuts, the alms of flat-rate affairs and bigger HSPA arrangement coverage. Austria and Finland are the bright bazaar leaders with a almost top assimilation ante compared to the added countries.

The absolute broadband bazaar in the EU-25 will abide to abound over the next 5 years admitting abounding countries are extensive assimilation levels abnormally for anchored broadband. The arch drivers for advance will be anchored broadband for rural areas and, especially, adaptable broadband.

About Broadband Quarterly Monitoring Service:
The Broadband Quarterly Monitoring is currently accessible on a annual cable basis. It provides a ample aggregate of indicators - a allotment of which ULL lines, DSL & FTTx, CaTV and cable modem subscribers, ARPU - for over 30 countries worldwide, with forecasts until 2012. Broadband Quarterly Monitoring is alone one of several Quarterly Monitoring Services that InfoCom provides. To apperceive more, amuse acquaintance us.

About InfoCom:
InfoCom is a bazaar analysis and consultancy aggregation with over 20 years acquaintance accouterment cardinal analyses and planning abetment to stakeholders in the telecommunications, IT and multimedia industries. InfoCom’s absolute and fact-based analyses highlight trends and opportunities, acknowledging accommodation makers to accept bazaar dynamics in adjustment to advance their aggressive advantage.